Hi everyone so I’m just trying to finalize the list of which colleges i’m going to apply to. I’m worried that I might be too top heavy with not enough safeties please leave your opinions and any suggestions you may have for adding any schools. Thank you !
GPA: 3.875/4 UW 4.3864/5 W
ACT: 33
Class rank: 35/463
AP’s: 2 taken (APES (4) & APUSH (5)) 4 for this year (AP Calc AB/BC, AP Chem, & AP LIT)
EC’s: 200+ hours of volunteer work through the same organization, marching band and winterguard member (leadership for marching), section leader in concert band, beta club member, GSA founder and president, officer of PAW club, Tri M member, various academic awards through my school, various music awards
Hooks: URM (Black female)
Intended major: Neuroscience/Cognetive Science or Biology on the pre-med track
Other info: So I’m actually graduating a year early, however, I will be graduating with a full course load and my transcript will look like any other seniors (32/32 possible credits 23 taken once summer ends). I’m also a NC resident. I’ve had the money talk with my parents budget isn’t an issue (yes this include the 70k+ schools)
Schools that I’m looking at right now:
Safeties
-High Point University
-App State
-Massachusetts College of Phramacy and Health Sciences (OOS)
Low Matches/Almost Safeties
-UMass (OOS)
Matches
-UPitt (OOS)
-NC state
-UNC
Reaches
-Cornell (OOS)
-UPenn (OOS)
-Johns Hopkins (OOS)
-Swarthmore College (OOS)
-University of Southern California (OOS)
If any other information is needed please let me know !
List looks reasonable. Do NC State and UNC have rolling admissions or honors colleges? Looks like definitely so for NC State based on a quick look at the admissions website. The UNC website is a bit ambiguous if you will hear before the end of Jan. Get those apps in first, and you can cut out all your lower ranked schools if you get in before the other deadlines. Also, you could potentially add some more reach schools at that point.
It doesn’t look to me like NC State has rolling admissions, but Pitt does. If you get into there early you could skip the first four on your list.
If anything, you could add one match. (To me, it looks like you have 6 safety/low match, 1 match, 5 reaches.) You might look at any liberal arts colleges ranked around 20-40 that have a Neuroscience major and possible merit aid.
If money is not an issue, any of the first four reaches could be ED if it is clearly your favorite. USC doesn’t have ED, though you could at least have a chance at a merit scholarship if you apply by Dec. 1.
Seconding Bates, also Bowdoin?
Drop HPU and MA Pharma. Not worth it. UNC Asheville would be better than either one, as would Guilford.
Oos, Simmons and Agnès Scott would be better safeties. In the Northeast, Geneseo would be another safety, as would Muhlenberg or Hobart and William Smith.
What about Wake and Davidson? Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke? Dickinson? St Lawrence?
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Best thing though is to call NC State and UNC directly to confirm whether they are rolling admissions.
please leave your opinions and any suggestions you may have for adding any schools. Thank you !